#Vanessa Huxtable

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Robert: Vanessa, Is It okay if I Call You sometime?

Vanessa: Yeah!

Robert: Maybe I could walk you to school tomorrow.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: I leave at eight o'clock.

Vanessa: I'll be here.

Robert: Great!Even if it's raining.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: But if it snows, I have to ask my dad.

Vanessa: Okay.

Robert: Vanessa?

Vanessa: What?

Robert: Vanessa, want to go steady?

Vanessa: Do you want to go steady?

Robert: If you want to.

Vanessa: Sure! I want to.

Robert: Well, I guess we're going steady.

Vanessa: I guess we're going steady. What does that mean?

Robert: Well, it means I'll call you and walk you to school.

Vanessa: I'd like that. My hands are all sweaty.

Robert: It's okay. We're

going steady

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Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory: V

V: The Characters

Valentina | Valerie Brown | Vanessa Brooks | Vanessa Damphousse | Vanessa Huxtable | Vanessa Tempo | Vella Tartine | Velvet Smooth | Veronica Fisher | Veronica Henley/Eden | Viola Dumont | Violet Harper | Violet Todd | Viv Odusanya | Viva Bennett | Vivian Banks | Vivienne de Fer | Vixen | Voya Thomas

V: The Entertainers

Vanessa Bell Calloway | Vanessa Lee Chester | Vanessa Gyimah | Vanessa Nakat | Vanesu Samunyai (Kyo Ra) | Vanessa Estelle Williams | Vaneza Oliveira | Veronica S. Taylor | Viola Davis | Vivica Ifeoma  

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Actress Tempestt Bledsoe. She is best known for her childhood role as Vanessa Huxtable, the fourth child of Cliff and Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.

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Merlin Santana (March 14, 1976 – November 9, 2002) was an American actor and rapper. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Santana was best known for his roles as Rudy Huxtable's boyfriend Stanley on The Cosby Show, Marcus Dixon on Getting By, Marcus Henry in Under One Roof and Romeo Santana on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1996 – 2002).

Born in Upper Manhattan, New York City to parents from the Dominican Republic, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents, who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York. He began his career at the age of three as an advertising model for a fast food chain. His first screen appearance was as an extra in the Woody Allen film, The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Acting Career

In 1991, Santana landed a recurring role on The Cosby Show as Stanley, the boyfriend of Rudy Huxtable and the rival of Rudy's friend Kenny (Deon Richmond). He was then cast as Marcus Dixon in the short-lived sitcom, Getting By, starring Cindy Williams and Telma Hopkins. Deon Richmond was cast as his brother Darren, due to their interaction on The Cosby Show.

In November 1994, Santana appeared on Sister, Sister as Joey, who falls in love with Tia and Tamera (Tia and Tamera Mowry) at Rocket Burger.

In 1995, Santana was cast as Marcus Henry in the short-lived CBS family drama Under One Roof, co-starring with James Earl Jones, Joe Morton and Vanessa Bell Calloway. Between 1996 and 1999, he played the role of Ohagi on Moesha.

In 1996, he landed the role of Romeo Santana on The Steve Harvey Show. In 2001, he played the role of Jermaine in the movie Flossin. In 2002, he appeared in the VH1 TV movie, Play'd: A Hip Hop Story with Toni Braxton. That same year, Santana had a role in the Eddie Murphy comedy Showtime. His last television acting role was on the UPN series, Half & Half, while his last film role was in the 2003 comedy film, The Blues with Deon Richmond.

Death

Shooting

On November 9, 2002, Santana was murdered while sitting in a car in Los Angeles. Santana and his friend, actor Brandon Adams, just left an acquaintance's home in the Crenshaw District when the suspect Damien Andre Gates fired the shot that entered through the trunk of the vehicle in which Santana was a passenger. The bullet penetrated the right-front passenger headrest and entered Santana's head, killing him.

On November 18, 2002, Santana, age 26, was buried at Saint Raymond's Cemetery in The Bronx borough of New York City.

Trial and Allegations against Gates

In 2003, Gates was convicted of the first-degree murder of Santana and the attempted murder of Adams and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 70 years in prison.

Brandon Douglas Bynes, the other suspect who was with Gates during the shooting, received a 23-year sentence after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.

An LAPD officer involved in the case testified that Monique King, reportedly shooter Gates's girlfriend, only aged 15 at the time, falsely claimed that Santana made sexual advances towards her which prompted the Gates' and Bynes' attack.

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The Cosby Show is a television sitcom co-created and starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons (1984-92). The show focuses on an upper-middle-class African American family living in Brooklyn.

The Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one-rated show on television. The Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the #1 show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20.

The show “was TV’s biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and rating fortunes.” TV Guide ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named the “Greatest Television Dad”.

Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African American cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby’s stand-up act, which in turn were based on his family life. The show led to the spinoff A Different World, which ran for six seasons (1987-93).

The patriarch is Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician, and son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable.

They have four daughters and one son: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, like Theo’s experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby’s dyslexic son, Ennis. The show also deals with teen pregnancy when Denise’s friend, Veronica, becomes pregnant. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Mrs. Claire Huxtable was NOT playing with Vanessa in this classic scene from the legendary sitcom, #TheCosbyShow.

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Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress (Vanessa Huxtable-Cosby Show), born in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Cosby Show + favorite looks (9/∞)

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Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad as Clair Hanks Huxtable, Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable, Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux on the set of The Cosby Show (c. 1980s)

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Cockroach: Theo! Theo Theo?

Theo: In Here.

Cockroach: Don't do It! Stop!

Theo: What?

Cockroach: Don't shave your head. We're not in the video.

Theo: What?!

Cockroach: I've been calling, but it's been busy.

Theo: That was Vanessa. What's wrong?

Cockroach: I'm beat. I ran over here. Let's sit down.

This is terrible.

Theo: What happened?

Cockroach: I went down early, and I couldn't even get on the set.

Theo: You're kidding.

Cockroach: There were 200 guys already everyone had a shaved head.

Theo: Whoa!

Cockroach: They took the first 13 and sent the rest home. I told the assistant, "You said I was in." He gave me $50 for showing up.

Theo: Fifty bucks? That's great!

Cockroach: Yeah, but look at this.

 Theo: Cockroach girls going to love it when they see you like

Cockroach: that yeah you're right I don't know whyI got so freaked about it anyway you need, 

Vanessa: What are you doing? Cockroach(laughs)

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I know its a jump, but Vanessa Huxtable and Shenshen from Elfquest are basically the same person in my mind

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Vanessa Huxtable | The Cosby Show Wiki | Fandom

Whenever I was little, Vanessa Huxtable was one of my first down to earth and realistic dope Black girls on TV. She had some insecurities at times, but was a confident and stylish girl, and she made mistakes because kids do, but she was still smart and good.

The Cosby Show made me feel like kids could make mistakes and still be loved and seen as good. That wasn't really the case at my house, so it was refreshing to see that there were parents and kids out there with an offbeat kinda girl who lowkey drove her folks crazy a little bit sometimes, but was cared for.

Plus, I really loved her natural hair and her clothing choices. Like, when I was little I didn't really get the whole "this is people acting," so much as I thought I was watching people live, and Vanessa was a really inspirational watch for me. Things about her appealed to me as a Gemini kid and a middle child, even though she wasn't, she felt like one, and I could relate.